Re: [ATM] Field derotator or equatorial?

["Scott Ewart" <scott.e@quicksurfer.com>]

"Giant"?
    No need to be giant.
http://tinyurl.com/aoyym
or http://tinyurl.com/ahldt
This is my double award-winning 12.4" split ring equatorial.  See more 
photos of it and others at Stellafane here:
http://dvaa.org/php/idir.php?d=Stellafane2005

Hey Chuck,
    If I can win, you should be able to get someting for yours.  Are you 
ever going to make it to Stellafane?
http://www.ghg.net/cshaw/14gsr1.jpg

Scott Ewart



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas W Leiper" <twleiper@juno.com>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Field derotator or equatorial?


| On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:26:49 -0700 "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com> writes:
| > Field derotation of a seperate guidescope won't work.  The
| > problem is that you will be guiding a single star and if that
| > star isn't in the center of the photo, the stars in the photo
| > will rotate about the guide star.
| > Bob May
|
| Sounds like it's time to start welding up that giant horseshoe
| equatorial.
| Anybody figure out a way to "de-rotate" Earth... besides Klatu?
|
| Tom Leiper
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